Senior Field Engineer — Defense & Government Systems

Tagup; Sanger (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k)

Team outings

Job summary

Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision support with next-generation AI. We seek change-makers to shape national security outcomes.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead customer engagements, delivering end-to-end integration with government data systems under real constraints, owning design, build, and ship duties. You’ll work with customer technical staff, debug production issues in their environments, and balance speed with robustness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems-integration work owned end to end.
• Depth in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration against messy sources, and system design under constraint.
• Experience deploying and debugging in environments you don’t control: government cloud, on-prem, or otherwise constrained.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements end to end: integration with government data and systems, designed and built under real constraints
• Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans, and deliver multi-week engagements without close supervision
• Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers
• Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud
• Document design decisions that hold up under scrutiny, and review code across the team
• Make sound speed-versus-robustness trade-offs under program constraints
• Mentor engineers and bring what you learn in the field back to the product team

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

System design

Mentoring engineers

Customer-facing

Government/cloud environments

Tools

Git

Job description

Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision support with next-generation AI. We seek change-makers to shape national security outcomes.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead customer engagements, delivering end-to-end integration with government data systems under real constraints, owning design, build, and ship duties. You’ll work with customer technical staff, debug production issues in their environments, and balance speed with robustness.